Vanguard Group

Based in PA

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AI Overview

With $18.8M in lobbying spend across 32 quarterly filings, Vanguard Group is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 5 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$18.8M
Total Spend
8
Years Active
1
Firms Hired
10
Lobbyists Deployed
5
Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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YearLobbying Spend
2018$2.7M
2019$2.5M
2020$2.9M
2021$2.1M
2022$1.8M
2023$2.1M
2024$2.3M
2025$2.3M

Issues Lobbied

Lobbying Firms

Lobbyists

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Financial, Taxation, Retirement, Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security

  • Issues arising from Dodd-Frank regulations - including systemic risk regulation of non-bank financial institutions, FSOC process improvements, SIFI designations for non-bank financial institutions, an
  • General tax issues related to mutual funds
  • Issues related to tax incentives for retirement savings, including the potential for Roth mandates
  • Commodity related investments, savings
  • Capital gains and
  • Issues in support of providing for electronic delivery of ERISA mandated retirement information, including H.R. 4610, the RETIRE Act
  • Issues related to the Department of Labors proposed fiduciary stan
  • Issues related to reductions in the federal debt and federal budget deficit
  • Issues related to raising the debt ceiling and avoiding federal government default
  • Issues related to funding the federal gov
  • Cybersecurity Issues (e.g., information sharing abilities, data breach notifications, enforcement actions, NIST cybersecurity framework and related matters)

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